Jeers: Didn't skate Sunday or Monday (today) and I'm already going through ice withdrawls. My weekend sanctuary is going through its annual ice maintenance... and so is my home rink this evening!!! I probably will skate Tuesday night at another rink. *sigh*

Cheers: Hmmm??? That I'm getting a day off??? And I'm looking forward to getting a picture of my coach at Peach Classic for blackmail material???

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Cheers,
jazzpants

11-04-2006: Shredded "Pre-Bronze FS for Life" Club Membership card!!!
Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

jazzpants and TreSk8sAZ congrats on loop coming back!

Cheers:

I squeezed in a quick session at the rink on teachers day/1st sept although it was (predicted to be and was) crazily crowded.
I managed to land some axels and one double salchow.
Went through some spins and practised some three turns.

Jeers:

I managed to bang my left finger on the toilet door so painfully that they hurt everytime I touched down with my left hand and especially so on the illusion spin when I was trying to touch the left hand to the ice during the inverted part of it. Somehow... I didn't noticed that hurt until much later and so I have had to cope with painful left fingers until now... they still hurt lol!

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Tidesong

Week 2, ISI Freestyle 1:

Cheers: Well, amazingly enough, I think that with enough practice I can pass this level this session. I think...

We worked on back edges and half-flips this lesson. Strangely, I found the back inside edges much easier than the outside, though my lobes are currently minescule and it took about twelve of them to cross the short axis of the rink. But I could at least get them to move, LOL! BO edges were tough -- as in not really an edge and not really moving. But when we took them to the circle and pumped a few times I could get the edge and the upper body rotation from closed to open position. So I WILL be able to do them down the line eventually.

Half-flips were fun! We're doing them from crossovers and I can do it walking through and really, really slowly. Better than the waltz jump, anyway. I need to work on more height (so it doesn't look like a step) and more speed, obviously. But there are six more weeks before testing and I'm feeling oddly confident right now.

Here's the best part: My class is half kids, half adults and the instructor was commenting on the difference between the way the kids pay attention in class and the way the adults pay attention in class. And there is a difference -- we adults listen to directions and try to do what we're told, the kids are sometimes not paying particular attention. And the adults are generally not as "floppy" as the kids. We started with forward edges before the back and I was on the way across the rink with my FI edges and heard the instructor say to the kids behind me "See, that's what this is supposed to look like -- see how pretty her carriage is? Now YOU do that!" Score one for the fat old chick!

I'm thinking of having a friend who just passed out of Freestyle 2 show me the footwork sequence from that level. I watched her doing it and it looked fun.

I giess this goes under this week's thread, even though it's a few days late: I PASSED MY ROCKER! My friends were all thrilled for me- or so I thought. Every one of them has gotten all excited with me, then made a comment along the lines of, "Thank God we don't have to listen to that music anymore!" Little do they know, I'm skating the Rocker in competition at the end of the month, so they DO have to listen to it for another four weeks! But if I hadn't passed it it would have been another six weeks, at least, until the next test session. Hopefully I'll be taking the American- which I failed on Sunday after doing it really well in warmup- in October sometime.

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Shae-Lynn and Victor: We knew you were champions, and on 3/28/03 the whole WORLD found out! Thank you for twelve wonderful years!

Congrats on passing your Rocker! Don't worry about the music complaints, though.... I'm sure that's just normal griping

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"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway." -- Unknown

Congratulations!

Oh, tell your friends that in the UK we do the Swing Dance to the Rocker music, too, so it gets played a lot!

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I love my computer because my friends live in it!
Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

How old are your boots? If they're really old, it may be time for a new pair, especially if you feel like you need to tighten the laces quite often and if the sides of the boots are really bendy and not supportive anymore.

In the mean time...if your boots are heat mouldable (e.g., Don Jackson, GAM), you can sometimes have your pro shop heat the boots up and put clamps around the sides of the boot to make them hug your ankles a little better...

Good luck!